17 AUGUST 1918¹

26io5

To Tsyurupa.

I am very much afraid that we are underestimating the "Penza" danger — both the food crisis and the general political situation — and that we will *actually* be unable to send "agitators."

Should we not urgently take measures to dispatch a good (Petrograd, etc.) food detachment and move it *at once*, impressing upon it the following tasks: for the first weeks, serve as agitators.

26410

To Tsyurupa.

In my view, it is necessary with utmost urgency — for you to coordinate
1) with Petrograd
2) with Sverdlov

concerning the dispatch to Penza and Penza Province of about 50 people (agitators from) Petrograd and Moscow workers.

¹ On these documents A. D. Tsyurupa made a note "17/VI"; we believe that this date was incorrectly entered by A. D. Tsyurupa and that these notes relate to the month of August. The grounds are as follows: first, the Penza danger was more threatening in August, not in